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ta1771··on The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (2017)
Just because government-involved conspiracy research isn't your field of interest doesn't mean you should talk down to others.

Quite the opposite.

ta1771··on 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court
Gross.
ta1771··on 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court
I'm trying to figure out the circumstances that you'd make a promise and not follow through on it.

There's something to be amazed by, by this story, but it's not doing what you say you will.

This thread's...disappointing.

ta1771··on 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court
The latter are acquaintances.
ta1771··on Wealthy mortgage borrowers face cold shoulder from lenders
> Otherwise you could say that just about any American middle class family is wealthy

They..are?

ta1771··on Stanford professor’s wife recruited for Coronavirus study with false pretenses
No.
ta1771··on Want to Ditch Zoom? Jitsi Offers an Open-Source Alternative
This is an awful reason not to use Jitsi.

We can't check our attendee lists for intruders before enabling passwords if something's important enough to require a password? Cmon.

ta1771··on When can we test everyone?
Are we able to test for all 8 strains at once?
ta1771··on Alarmed as Covid patients' blood thickened, New York doctors try new treatments
Unpopular tidbit, for some reason: there's 8+ strains.
ta1771··on Chinese Agents Helped Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S.
Op. Mockingbird sings, even today.
ta1771··on AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
Not ignorant, they don't advertise it, ironically(?).

They're an ad network.

ta1771··on The ProtonMail Android app is now open source
After they submit their code to the F-Droid.org team that audits and readies it for their build server queue.
ta1771··on UK’s Investigatory Powers Act is set to expand
They don't care because they don't truly know the depth of the implications.
ta1771··on What a one line change did to the Chrome sandbox
Firefox runs multiple sites in a single process, its sandboxing doesn't come close.
ta1771··on Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon
Short term.
ta1771··on PPP just got another $250B – do not wait. Apply immediately
Any info copy and pasted for those not on FB?
ta1771··on Ask HN: How do you tell SaaS sales people you want a self-serve option?
What software are you buying, OP?
ta1771··on The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)
> There is no foil on my head, but

Good thing, because this would amplify radio frequencies. This trope needs to die.

ta1771··on The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)
This is not a response in this "argument", but, please watch "Citizenfour" and/or Hollywood version "Snowden".
ta1771··on The Subways Seeded the Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
Are native Americans and Canadians along the border genetically distinct? Same question, really.
ta1771··on Psilocybin Produced in Yeast
Drug in question used to be a treatment for alcoholism before the drug war began.

Quick Qwant search should turn up loads.

ta1771··on Immigration to US to be halted due to virus – Trump
> Indeed, if firms could hire locally, they won't jump through the extra hoops to secure work visas

They...could. It would just cost more. This is a controversial topic because everyone has differing experiences on opposite sides of this "debate".

ta1771··on California researchers begin to test everybody in one town for Coronavirus
> Bolinas, a wealthy beach town

This is privately funded.

ta1771··on Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study
Probably because they know it's futile, not because it shouldn't be covered under the Amendment.
ta1771··on Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media
Is this a CNN problem, or indicative of a society problem?

(IMO: both.)

ta1771··on Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media
Forget which country it is, but there's already another that's pushing this on Google (for their News aggregator).
ta1771··on Coronavirus: Care home deaths 'far higher' than official figures
Not trying to start a flamewar, but if you werr to ask the other cultures around the world that don't send their elders into the care of strangers...

the decision to stay present in the lives of their parents etc has nothing to do with what they're good at (can be learned), or enjoy.

ta1771··on Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensions support
My chosen threat model does not allow for significantly less security in exchange for extensions.

Also, they may very well take PRs for extension support (haven't looked through their Issues/roadmap), but, I'm sure it's not on the top of a security-first project's to-do list.

ta1771··on Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensions support
Single process for all tabs/sites, no sandboxing, for a start.

I personally won't touch Gecko anymore, and I've been a FF advocate since it was called Mozilla, ha

ta1771··on Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensions support
Any history of this?

For anyone: Why don't they cross-sign with their key+dev key?

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